Have you disabled pulseaudio by chance?
I have this problem too after disabling pulseaudio and switching to
ALSA.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb3ff6b90 (LWP 16838)]
0xb35fd3a1 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread apply all bt
Thread 3 (Thread 0xb3ff6b90 (LWP 16838
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: pidgin
+ Binary package hint: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.
- On invoking Pidgin, it starts fine to disconnected state. Once
+ Problem occurs after this morning's release of updates to Ubuntu 9.04
+ amd_64 line of packages.
+
+ On invoking Pidgin, it s
